THE KHADDAR (PROTECTION OF NAME) ACT, 1950 
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ARRANAGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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SECTIONS 
1.  Short title and extent. 
2.  The words “Khaddar” and “Khadi” to be trade description.
 

THE KHADDAR (PROTECTION OF NAME) ACT, 1950

ACT NO. 78 OF 1950

[28th December, 1950.]

An  Act  to  regulate  the  use  of  the  words  “Khaddar”  and  “Khadi”  when  applied  as  a  trade 
description of woven materials.

BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:—

1. Short title and extent.—(1) This Act may be called the Khaddar (Protection of Name) Act, 1950.
(2) It extends to the whole of India except the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

2. The  words  “Khaddar”  and  “Khadi”  to  be  trade  description.—The  words  “Khaddar”  and 
Khadi”,  whether  in  Hindi  or  in  any  other  Indian  language  or  in  English,  when  applied  to  any  woven 
material, shall be deemed to be a trade description within the meaning of the Indian Merchandise Marks 
Act, 1889 (40 of 1889), indicating that such material is cloth woven on handlooms in India from cotton, 
silk or woolen yarn hand-spun in India or from a mixture of any two or all of such yarns.